Back on line

It’s been a long 2+ weeks of small maintenance jobs and varnish work while Anna’s been gone to Michigan. One of the first jobs I had  to deal with was our 4 year old laptop computer. One day, about two weeks ago, the screen started to flash from one thing to another from the top to the bottom over and over again. Well, it didn’t take long to figure out that the ‘space’ key on the keyboard had stuck down! If I beat on the space bar several times it would clear up for a few minutes and then start doing it again. NASA, we have a problem. How do you go on line to find a part for the computer when you need the computer to do the search? I finally found the correct part number and called New Egg (a excellent computer parts place) to place an order for a new keyboard only to find out that I needed my login and password for that site (we had ordered from them before) but, this info was on the computer! I had to have my son-in-law up in Michigan call in the order under his account then ship it down here. Sometimes I think that this electronic world that we live in will be our down fall. A week later, I had a new key board and (finally) a working computer again.

old keyboard... surprisingly easy to replace

In the mean time, I’ve done many ‘spot’ varnish repairs on the main mast followed by 20 coats of varnish to re-build the varnish up to the old stuff. I have about 35 coats of varnish on the main mast now. I’ve become very proficient in hauling my skinny butt up the 50 ft + mast over and over again.

I use a '4-part' tackle to haul myself up the mast

 

 

A view of the anchorage in Manatee Pockets

Anna should be back in another week or so and we will continue our way down to the Keys and maybe up to the west side of Fl. For those of you up north… enjoy that cold weather!!!